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To understand the depth of this praise, we recall the fundamental identity relating God and Holiness:

Thus, "Holy, Holy, Holy" is numerically equivalent to "God, God, God." Yet there is more. The fundamental Hebrew word meaning "three, threefold, triple" is (Shalash, S# 8027). When combined with the fundamental Beyt KeyWord (Barak, Blessing, cf. GR 222) we arrive at the phrase Barak Shalish, which could mean either "Threefold Blessing" of "Blessing of the Trinity." We have therefore this pair of identities:

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